Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for
Continue readingA classic Seinfeld episode concerned George Costanza’s decision (at Kramer’s urging) to park in a handicapped zone. This being George, things went drastically wrong. What I remember from the episode, though, isn’t the cascading sequence of disasters; instead; it’s the opprobrium heaped upon George for parking in the blue. His
Continue readingLast week, a story broke that received surprisingly little attention from the MSM: a 14 year old Bangladeshi girl, after first being raped, was then accused of adultery and beaten to death. I say “surprisingly” because, since the women’s lib era, the dominant trope on the Left when it comes
Continue readingThe other day, Mr. Bookworm asked me to tell him “what the right wing wackos were talking about.” Among other things, I mentioned that people were interested in the fact that Hillary had recently announced that she would not return as Secretary of State for Obama’s second term, leading to
Continue readingAnecdote 1: My son is now, and always has been, fascinated by weapons. He’s especially intrigued by sniper rifles, and their spectacular range, especially when in the hands of a talented shooter. I therefore emailed my son a link to an article about two British snipers in Afghanistan who killed
Continue readingIf there is one defining characteristic of liberals, it is their sense that they are better than everyone else. Nowhere was that more explicitly illustrated than in Ron Schiller’s comments: In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives. Schiller wasn’t unique, just unguarded.
Continue readingIn America, each side of the political aisle routinely accuses the other of engaging in “scare” tactics. Each side is right. Doomsday scenarios are how you engage an increasingly distracted population. My question for you is, when it comes to predicting doomsday scenarios to engage the population, which side is
Continue readingFor conservatives and libertarians, the movie icons might be High Noon or True Grit. For Liberals, the defining anthem is John Lennon’s “Imagine“. Why is there such a fundamental gulf between ourselves and Liberals, to the point where we find ourselves simply talking past each other? Can this gulf ever
Continue readingMark Steyn harmonizes with my thoughts about liberal wars and multiculturalism, and Andy McCarthy gives an in-depth, erudite analysis of something I’ve also pointed out before: the totalitarian statism that ties together the Left and radical Islam.
Continue readingMark Steyn took a long break from writing, and I really missed him terribly. Why? Because he wrote things like this, as part of a larger essay about the Kosovan who killed to U.S. Airmen in Frankfurt, Germany: Remember Kosovo? Me neither. But it was big at the time, launched
Continue readingOne of my take-away images from reading George Orwell’s 1984 is Winston Smith’s job: he destroys any historic evidence that conflicts with Big Brother’s current agenda. As with all things Left, George Orwell knew exactly what he was talking about. The Left likes to re-write history. Its misfortune is that
Continue readingI like these paragraphs: And the exquisitely temperate ladies and gentlemen who were just the day before yesterday lecturing us about the allegedly corrosive tone of conservative political discourse are parading through the mean streets of Madison waving placards bearing the name and likeness of Adolf Hitler, and denouncing Governor
Continue readingThe MSM, which went on a fruitless hunt for violent rhetoric from the Tea Party, is hiding from the public the fact that it finally found that violent rhetoric. The MSM’s problem, of course, is that the rhetoric and imagery have nothing to do with the Tea Party, and everything
Continue readingThis morning, I read and enjoyed Jeannie DeAngelis’ post about a potential Herman Cain candidacy. From everything I’ve heard, including musings from our own Danny Lemieux, Cain is a person one would like to have in the White House. He may not have a political track record, but he’s still
Continue readingFrom whence does the viciousness in the Leftwing soul emanate? I know that most if not all of us in the Bookworm circle have seen this horrific video below. I post it because we need to see this again and again. We need to look into their eyes to recognize
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